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School Board of Brevard County
FY 2017-2018 Student Accommodation Plan _______________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Cap Enrollment at Permanent Capacity and Bus New Students to Schools That Have Available Capacity (“Cap and Bus”)
This option is sometimes used when an over-capacity situation is believed to be temporary in nature (a new school is under construction, projected declining enrollment at an over capacity school, etc.) or when none of the less disruptive options are feasible.
6. Change School Attendance Boundaries - Redistricting
Redistricting is the process of changing the attendance boundary of a school to move students from an over-crowded school to adjacent schools that have fewer students than capacity. It is typically one of the most challenging responsibilities of a School Board. Traditionally, the School District has used “hard” redistricting to establish an attendance boundary for a new school or to change an attendance boundary for a school that is over capacity. Students within the redistricted area must attend a different school the following year. Typically, rising sixth, eighth, eleventh and twelfth graders are “grandfathered,” allowing them to complete their education at their current school.
7. Multi-Track Year-Round School Operations
When multi-track year-round school scheduling is implemented, it increases the effective capacity of a school by 33% because the school will be in use during the summer months. Because of difficulties coordinating family activities like vacations, this option has not been popular.
8. Split Sessions
This option involves splitting the student body into two groups. One group attends school from early in the morning to about noon. The other group attends from noon to late in the afternoon. While this option effectively doubles a schools capacity, there is less time for each group than there would be otherwise. This measure is considered to be the most disruptive means of solving over-capacity issues when space is limited and is used only when no other option is feasible.
9. School Closing
If a group of schools are under-utilized in an area of projected stable or declining enrollment, the School Board may choose to close one or more of those schools if the adjacent schools have sufficient capacity to serve the students from the closed school(s). The more efficient utilization of the remaining schools saves resources that can be better spent on the students' education rather than on keeping several partly-used schools open. The additional enrollment in the remaining schools can provide more programs and other educational opportunities for students than existed in the existing schools with smaller enrollments.
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Facilities Services / DGL Board Approved March 28, 2017